List of fires in Canada

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This is a list of fires in Canada. Numbers for buildings only include those destroyed, and area is given in hectares and is converted to acres.

ArticleLocationYearDeathsDamageBuildingsArea in ha/aNotes
1825 Miramichi FireNorthern New Brunswick1825300+ 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 hectares (2,500,000 to 4,900,000 acres)[1] A series of wildfires that burned in October 1825
Great Fire of 1846St. John's, Newfoundland (Dominion of Newfoundland)1846 3£888,356 600 hectares (1,500 acres)
Great Fire of 1852Montreal (United Province of Canada)18520 Nearly half of city's housing destroyed
Saguenay FireSaguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec18707 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) Nearly 1/3 of the population lost everything.
Great Fire of 1892St. John's, Newfoundland, (Dominion of Newfoundland)1892 $13,000,000
The Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick Saint John, New Brunswick 187719 $28,000,000[2]
Great Vancouver Fire Vancouver, British Columbia 1886 24 to 28[3]$1,300,000
Calgary Fire of 1886 Calgary 18860$103,200
1900 Hull-Ottawa fireHull, Quebec19007$956,962.77
Great Toronto Fire Toronto1904 0 $10,350,000 180 hectares (440 acres)
Matheson Fire Black River-Matheson, Ontario 1916223[4]
Great Fire of 1922 Timiskaming District, Ontario 1922 43 $2,000,000 168,000 hectares (420,000 acres)
Chinchaga fire Northern British Columbia and Alberta 1950 0 1,400,000 to 1,700,000 hectares (3,500,000 to 4,200,000 acres)Largest recorded fire in North American history
McLure Fire North Thompson River, British Columbia2003 0 $31.9 Million[5]81 26,420 hectares (65,300 acres) 3,800 people evacuated[5]
Okanagan Mountain Park Fire Central Okanagan, British Columbia 2003 0 $33.8 Million[6] 23925,912 hectares (64,030 acres)
West Kelowna Wildfires West Kelowna, British Columbia 2009 0 $403 million[7]4 9,877 hectares (24,410 acres) Three separate wildfires
May 2010 Quebec wildfires La Tuque, Quebec 2010 0 90,000 hectares (220,000 acres)
2011 Slave Lake wildfire Slave Lake 2011 1 (helicopter crash) CAD $750 million[8] 433 4,700 hectares (12,000 acres) One-third of town destroyed.[9]
Richardson Fire Alberta2011 0 $350 to $450 million[10] 700,000 hectares (1,700,000 acres)largest fire in Alberta since the 1950 Chinchaga fire.
2016 Fort McMurray wildfireAlberta, Saskatchewan20162
(indirect, car accident)[11]
$3.58 billion[12] 3,065[13][14] 589,552 hectares (1,456,810 acres)[15]Largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history.[16]Costliest disaster in Canadian history, cost of CAD$3.58 billion in July, estimate up to $9 billion.

See also

References

  1. "Great Miramichi Fire: The largest fire ever in eastern North America". GNB. Archived from the original on October 13, 2010. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
  2. "The Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick, 1877". Retrieved 2008-12-17.
  3. "Great Vancouver Fire Stories" (PDF). MOV. Museum of Vancouver. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  4. Heritage Foundation of Canada
  5. 1 2 "The McLure Fire" (PDF). The University of Lethbridge. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  6. "Fire Review Summary for Okanagan Mountain Fire (K50628)" (PDF). BC Wildfire. Government of British Columbia. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  7. "Review of the 2009 Fire Season" (PDF). BC Wildfire. Ministry of Forests and Range. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  8. "Slave Lake fires 2nd costliest insured disaster". CTV News. 2011-07-05. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
  9. "Slave Lake fire: How it happened". Postmedia Network Inc. Edmonton Journal. May 15, 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  10. "Canadian Natural Resources Limited Provides a Further Update on the Impact of Alberta Forest Fires" (Press release). Marketwire. May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
  11. "2 die in fiery crash on Highway 881 south of Fort McMurray". CBC/Radio-Canada. CBC News Edmonton. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  12. Romero, Diego (July 7, 2016). "Fort McMurray wildfires damage cost $3.58 billion". CTV Edmonton. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  13. Ramsay, Caley; Shum, David (May 9, 2016). "'Ocean of fire' destroys 2,400 structures but 85% of Fort McMurray still stands". Global News. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
  14. Johnston, Scott (May 17, 2016). "UPDATED – Explosions damage and destroy Fort McMurray homes". Corus Entertainment Inc. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  15. "Fort McMurray Area Update". Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. Government of Alberta. July 13, 2016. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
  16. Parsons, Paige (May 3, 2016). "Thousands flee from Fort McMurray wildfire in the largest fire evacuation in Alberta's history". Edmonton Journal. Postmedia Network. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
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